Disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to end his life at least three times before his successful attempt in 2019 death, according to a new investigation into the late pedophile’s death.Ex-New York cop and convicted murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, 56, who briefly shared a cell with Epstein at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Centre jail, told the New York Times that he was point-blank asked how to kill himself by the sex trafficker days before his first reported attempt on July 22, 2019.Epstein had just returned to his cell after a judge denied him bail. It was his 13th day in custody.Over the next few days, Tartaglione said, he twice witnessed Epstein making preparations to end his life, the New York Post reported. Tartaglione told the outlet that he reported both attempts to jail guards, but they laughed him off. His account, however, was backed up by another inmate, Peter Bright, who recalled Tartaglione telling him about the previous attempts shortly after Epstein’s death.On July 22, less than three weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell, Tartaglione found him motionless on the floor of his cell after what appeared to be another suicide attempt.The pedophile had initially claimed to corrections officers that his cellmate tried to kill him. An internal prison investigation cleared Tartaglione of any connection to the incident.Epstein was eventually found dead on the morning of August 10.